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NYC: Come To Our WNBA Comedy Show On May 16

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Interviews

An Interview With A Fired NOAA Program Analyst

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Tom Scocca

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Margin Of Error

The Era Of Meek Government Is Over

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An Interview With A Fired USDA Agricultural Engineer

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Politics

An Interview With A Fired CDC Health Communications Manager

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Kathryn Xu

Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress

The DOGE Fencing Hearing Reveals The Latest In Anti-Trans Grift

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An Interview With A Fired USAID Education Officer

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David Roth

Elon Musk speaks during a cabinet meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 26, 2025. He's backlit and is doing his Thinking Hands and is wearing a stupid hat. The Distraction logo is at upper right.

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Podcasts

Beavises In The Code Base, With Tim Marchman

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An Interview With A Fired USDA Program Coordinator

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An Interview With An Epidemiologist Who Lost Her Job Because Of The DOGE Layoffs

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An Interview With A Fired EPA Public Affairs Specialist

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An Interview With A Fired USFWS Fish Biologist

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An Interview With A Fired USDA Specialist

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An Interview With A Fired NOAA Director

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) walks back towards the senate side of the building at the U.S. Capitol on March 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Tensions have flared over the shutdown within the Democratic caucus after Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Thursday that he will vote to advance a House-passed six-month government funding bill, despite opposition from many Democrats who argue it would create a "slush fund" for former President Trump and Elon Musk.

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Chuck Schumer Is Responsible

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An Interview With A Fired NOAA Budget Analyst

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Chris Thompson

The Virgin River flows through the valley floor as viewed on November 9, 2019 in Zion National Park, Utah

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Why Bully The National Park Service?

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An Interview With A Fired USFWS Biologist

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, behind a podium at a press conference, looking like doofuses.

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This Is Uvalde

Dennis M. Hogan

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - FEBRUARY 19: People including researchers from Chicago area universities gather on the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) campus to voice concerns about the potential loss of federal funding for medical research on February 19, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. The researchers are worried about the future of their projects as the Trump administration cuts grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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The NIH Cuts Are Part Of An All-Out War On Higher Education

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Patrick Redford

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Yellowstone National Park Exteriors And Landmarks – 2021

The Great Outdoors

What Are Public Lands For?

NYPD officers prepare to make arrests during a rally and a march in Manhattan to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recent raids and crackdown on migrants in New York. New York City, U.S., February 13, 2025.

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The Country That Was Here Is Gone

People organize a rally and demonstration against Elon Musk outside the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Washington D.C., United States on February 03, 2025.

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